The movie is predicted to open north of $50 million. As a whole, the film cost Warner Bros. $60 million, relatively low for an animated picture.
Any number above $42 million, would push "The LEGO Movie" past Universal's "Ride Along" ($41.5 million) to give it the largest opening weekend of the year so far.
Currently, "LEGO" is far ahead of the competition in ticket sales.
Fandango provided us with a break down of ticket sales as of Friday morning. "The Lego Movie" is dominating:
77% "The LEGO Movie"
11% "The Monuments Men"
2% "Vampire Academy"
From the looks of things, it's going to be a rough weekend for The Weinstein Company's "Vampire Academy." Projections have it sitting at $6.6 million.
Meanwhile, "Monuments Men" is on track to make $20.5 million. George Clooney's World War II film about a team of men saving art from being destroyed by Nazis cost Sony an estimated $70 million.
We wouldn't be surprised if "The LEGO Movie" has a larger opening weekend.
Yesterday, Fandango announced "The LEGO Movie" is its second largest advance ticket-seller for animated films behind "Toy Story 3" (2010). That film went on to make $110.3 million opening weekend.
"LEGO" has also passed advanced ticket sales for Disney's "Frozen" and "Monsters University." "Frozen" debuted to $67.4 million while "Monsters University" had a $82.4 opening weekend.
Currently, the film is sitting at 97% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 96 positive reviews.
- 71% of trailer-watchers can't get the movie's ironic theme song, "Everything is Awesome," out of their heads;
- 67% of adult ticket-buyers say they are nostalgic for their LEGO toys;
- 62% of adult ticket buyers says they would consider seeing the movie on a date;
- 54% picked Morgan Freeman as the ancient wizard Vitruvius as the new character they were most anticipating;
- 52% said they re-enacted movie scenes with LEGO when they were kids.